Brokeback Mountain tops poll of gay movies

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The readers of gay entertainment website AfterElton.com have selected queer cowboy classic Brokeback Mountain as the Greatest Gay Movie Of All Time.

570 films were nominated, with a British effort, Beautiful Thing, coming in second, with Shelter third.

British films Maurice and Get Real also made the top ten.

“Except for two films, The Boys in the Band (1970) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), every movie on this list was produced in the 1980s or later,” said AfterElton.

“What’s this? Don’t gay people like classic films? A more likely explanation, of course, is that gay-related content rarely existed on film until the 1980s — and if it did, it was almost invariably offensive.”

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